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- SB SPACE @ ARL $ARLS025
- ARLS025 New Astronaut Hams
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- ZCZC AS69
- QST de W1AW
- Space Bulletin 025 ARLS025
- >From ARRL Headquarters
- Newington, CT July 6, 1994
- To all radio amateurs
-
- SB SPACE ARL ARLS025
- ARLS025 New Astronaut Hams
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- New Astronaut Hams
-
- Shuttle Missions To Carry New Astronaut-Hams.
- Launch Scheduled for July 8.
-
- The Amateur Radio community has three new astronaut-hams among their
- ranks. The FCC has recently issued call signs for Robert D. Cabana,
- KC5HBV, L. Blaine Hammond Jr, KC5HBS and Jerry M. Linenger, KC5HBR.
- Cabana will serve as Commander on the Space Shuttle Columbia which
- is scheduled to launch this Friday, July 8, at 1643 UTC. The
- mission has been designated STS-65. Hammond and Linenger will fly
- aboard the Shuttle Discovery during STS-64 in September.
-
- When Columbia launches this week, it will carry the second
- International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-02) and the Shuttle
- Amateur Radio EXperiment (SAREX) payload. Cabana and Mission
- Specialist Donald Thomas, KC5FVF will lead the Amateur Radio
- activities, which will include random QSO opportunities with the
- general ham radio community and specially selected schools around
- the world.
-
- SAREX will be flown in configuration C, which includes 2-meter FM
- voice and packet radio hardware. The crew will use separate receive
- and transmit frequencies. Earth stations should listen to the
- downlink frequency and transmit on the uplink frequency only when
- the Shuttle is in range and the astronauts are on the air. The
- worldwide voice and packet downlink frequency is 145.55 MHz. Please
- do not transmit on this frequency. The voice uplink frequencies are
- 144.91, 144.93, 144.95, 144.97 and 144.99 MHz. In Europe, the voice
- uplink frequencies are 144.70, 144.75, and 144.80 MHz. The
- worldwide packet uplink frequency is 144.49 MHz. Look for KC5FVF
- and KC5HBV on voice, and W5RRR-1 on packet which the crew may
- operate in an attended or unattended mode.
-
- The following pre-launch Keplerian elements are based upon a launch
- at 1643 UTC on Friday, July 8:
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- STS-65
- 1 00065U 94189.74687707 .00052344 00000-0 15762-3 0 47
- 2 00065 28.4664 7.3074 0003571 330.7493 29.2906 15.90324781 29
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- Satellite: STS-65
- Catalog number: 00065
- Epoch time: 94189.74687707 = (08 JUL 94 17:55:30.18 UTC)
- Element set: 004
- Inclination: 28.4664 deg
- RA of node: 7.3074 deg Space Shuttle Flight STS-65
- Eccentricity: .0003571 Prelaunch Element set JSC-004
- Arg of perigee: 330.7493 deg Launch: 08 JUL 94 16:43 UTC
- Mean anomaly: 29.2906 deg
- Mean motion: 15.90324781 rev/day Gil Carman, WA5NOM
- Decay rate: 5.2344e-04 rev/day sq NASA Johnson Space Center
- Epoch rev: 2
- Checksum: 295
- NNNN
- /EX
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